Loulabelle’s FrancoFiles

Loulabelle's FrancoFiles is hosted by Louise Prichard. Other Loulabelle's links: FrancoFile Fix on YouTube Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Spotify Playlist Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Instagram Loulabelle's FrancoFiles website Ashley Tinker is a Canadian now living in Provence. Back when she was aged 19 she was at art school in Italy and took a mini "vacances" in the south...

Loulabelle's FrancoFiles is hosted by Louise Prichard. Other Loulabelle's links: FrancoFile Fix on YouTube Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Spotify Playlist Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Instagram Loulabelles FrancoFiles website   Cynthia Coutu is living what I think is my dream life! Although I’m sure it is nowhere as easy as she makes it seem! Canadian born Cynthia now lives in Paris whil...

Loulabelle's FrancoFiles is hosted by Louise Prichard. Other Loulabelle's links: FrancoFile Fix on YouTube Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Spotify Playlist   Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Instagram Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Website The Loulabelle's FrancoFile's podcast is the place to come to keep your Frenchy vibes going without even leaving home! In each episode we chat wit...

Loulabelle's FrancoFiles is hosted by Louise Prichard. Other Loulabelle's links: FrancoFile Fix on YouTube Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Spotify Playlist   Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Instagram Loulabelle's FrancoFiles website The Loulabelle's FrancoFile's podcast is the place to come to keep your Frenchy vibes going without even leaving home! In each episode we chat wit...

Loulabelle's FrancoFiles is hosted by Louise Prichard. Other Loulabelle's links: FrancoFile Fix on YouTube Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Spotify Playlist   Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Instagram Loulabelle's FrancoFiles website   Yolaine Corbin's links: Frenchilicious Kitchen  Melbourne AFL Grand Final day set menu: click here and mention Loulabelle's for a free gift!  Yo...

Loulabelle's FrancoFiles is hosted by Louise Prichard. Other Loulabelle's links: FrancoFile Fix on YouTube Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Spotify Playlist   Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Instagram Loulabelle's FrancoFiles website Episode 73 William Kornblum is the author of Marseille Port to Port .    Bill as he prefers to be called is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Graduate...

Loulabelle's FrancoFiles is hosted by Louise Prichard. Other Loulabelle's links: FrancoFile Fix on YouTube Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Spotify Playlist   Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Instagram Loulabelle's FrancoFiles website Episode 72 Christine Sheehy is a copy writer, ghost writer and a book coach now living in New Zealand. She has wanted to have a stint living in France ever...

Loulabelle's FrancoFiles hosted by Louise Prichard. Loulabelle's FrancoFiles website FrancoFile Fix on YouTube Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Spotify Playlist   Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Instagram Recently I shrugged off the COVID vibes and took to the skies to get back to the place that holds my heart, France! In the planning for l'été français I made arrangements to stay with m...

Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Episode 70 - Dreaming of a Château... * * Hosted by Louise Prichard * * Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Website Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Spotify Playlist   Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Instagram   Growing up Julia Leach had a dream of living in a huge historic building, a château, with everyone she loved in the one little community and she had the feeling this bea...

Cynthia Moos is founder and owner of Best French Forever. BFF is a subscription service (currently only available in the US) which delivers a box avec un petit peu de Provence right on your doorstep!  Cynthia Moos was born and raised in Provence. Whilst studying in the UK she met her now American husband and moved to the US. Now living in Colorado she is reminded of the sounds of Provence with the...

www. LoulabellesFrancoFiles.com * Hosted by Louise Prichard * Right now the wonderful French Riviera city of Cannes is awash with glitz and glamour for the 75th Cannes Film Festival and I chatted to my belle amie Ruby Boukabou who is there this year about the most dynamic 2 weeks of her year! Author, performer, tap dancer extraordinaire and all round amazingly talented Ruby loves that the festival...

www. LoulabellesFrancoFiles.com * Hosted by Louise Prichard * Lately I’ve been hearing more and more from Loulabelle’s FrancoFiles listeners that they are making plans to head to head back overseas and to France! It’s been such a long time since many of us have travelled that I thought an episode about travel tips to refresh our memories would be une idée fabuleux!  Tune into this chat for the thi...

www. LoulabellesFrancoFiles.com * Hosted by Louise Prichard * Join Lou to escape to France momentarily through the wonderful stories of various Francophiles! Andrew Prior is a fabulous French foodie who some Australians will know from his time as a contestant on MasterChef some years ago, but now he is living his best life in a gorgeous pocket of France in the village of Montmorillon. Like Lou, An...

www. LoulabellesFrancoFiles.com * * Hosted by Louise Prichard As an addict of "château porn" as we call it in my house, I feel as if I already know Karen Horne who has been on the Escape to the Château DIY series (which is now known as simply Château DIY.) Karen and her husband Paul had for many years spent weekends escaping to France and always loved exploring the little villages when t...

www. LoulabellesFrancoFiles.com  * * Hosted by Louise Prichard Lou chats to Bordeaux born and bred Alexandra Ganipeau who now lives in Melbourne Australia running an online business called The French Hack.  Growing up Alex always wanted to be bilingual so in her early 20s she headed to London, met and married an Aussie boy and the rest is history! How lucky for us Melburnians that she is here now...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com Hosted by Louise Prichard Kate Venter has always loved drawing. Her school books were always covered in creative doodling! So after a career in IT she made the decision to move into her own business designing party ware. But just prior to the recent COVID lockdowns she got her creative juices flowing further by moving more into the design side of things and immersed...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com   Hosted by Louise Prichard Professor Emmanuel Josserand grew up in Montmartre but now resides in Sydney, Australia. He has worked around the world but it was "love" that kept him in Sydney! Very French he says! In this warm and funny chat with Emmanuel he tells me about his life growing up in Montmartre with his grandparents who lived next door to uber fam...

www. LoulabellesFrancoFiles.com  * Loulabelle's FrancoFiles on Instagram - @loulabelles_francofiles   * We often think of Paris as the beautiful tourist Mecca flooded with cutesie photo ops of flowers, promenades, cafes and gorgeous doors. But under all of that beauty is a rawness. A wonderful strength and determination to survive. I chatted to Parisian Lise Buisson Primaud whose family strug...

www. LoulabellesFrancoFiles.com  Through this podcast I have met so many wonderful people and I have continued to be in awe of the generous spirit and beautiful connection I have had with guests. Some have become lovely friends. There's a kind of global French appreciation community of sorts, and it's chockablock with beautiful souls. If you’re on Instagram it is so worth following Kathe...

www. LoulabellesFrancoFiles.com   Julia Fulford-Kirby had loved France since visiting as a child and followed her dream with a little help from the popular series Escape to the Château DIY. Julia was born in Australia and moved to England as a young person and the Francophile seed was sewn on holidays to France back then. Julia describes France as a magical place and I completely agree! She always...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com  Episode 58  I often wonder about the way I view French culture and consider how the things France is famous for might be viewed by the French! Today I chatted to our fave French correspondent Sarah Zwick from Be My Guest Immersions about the French perspective of wine. Not the expert perspective but how wine is seen culturally by ordinary French citizens. In this go...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com  In Christmas week I was very excited to chat to Emily Gaudichon who has joined me for a petit papotage on the Loulabelle’s FrancoFiles podcast previously right back in episode 20.  Emily is on Instagram as The Real Emily in Paris. I've always wanted to go to France for Christmas so it was wonderful to chat to her and find out the low down for Christmas in Paris...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com   Miriam Eckerle loves flowers, her cats and France. She was troubled with how to enjoy all three at once so made the life changing decision to pull up stumps from her home in Indiana in the US and move to the Charente region in France with her husband Jon. Miriam and Jon discussed for many years the idea of retiring in France, so they would spend hours scrolling thr...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com Katherine Watt has lived and worked in many countries around the world but it has been Paris that has captured her heart! So four years ago she made the leap to resign from her job and move to France. Where to start with a leap like this?!?! That's what I wanted to find out! Katherine started by drawing a line in the sand with the end date for her job. She plann...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com So this week saw exiting news in the Aussie Francophile world... the Embassy of France in Australia launched a new website Sacreblue! I was super excited that the Loulabelle’s FrancoFiles podcast was asked to come on board for the new platform, which is dedicated to bringing together all institutions, organisations and individuals who create cultural and intellectual...